Ruben Navarrett, in the March 11, 2015 editiorial page, tries his best to convict Republicans of being hostile to illegal immigrants, for no reason other than the immigrants are no better than animals and insects. He doesn’t tell where this charge has been made.

House Joint Resolution 1012, the deceptively named Right to Farm bill, has passed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives and will soon be heard in the Senate. If the bill is passed, it will send a question to the ballot asking voters, who have had almost no opportunity to fully explore the dangers of this misnamed bill, to add an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution protecting any and all agricultural practices from future oversight or regulation.

It says much about the growing extremism of the national Democratic Party on social issues that, given a choice between helping victims of human trafficking or funding abortion, Democratic senators are making the latter a higher priority.

Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama has sought to curtail oil and gas production in the United States. Now he’s seeking a deal with Iran that would allow that country to open the spigot on oil exports. It says much about this presidency that Obama shows more zeal for restricting the actions of law-abiding U.S. energy companies than he does for combating a terrorist-supporting, nuclear arms-seeking rouge nation.

After Congress came a hair’s breadth from shutting down the Department of Homeland Security a few weeks ago, members of the leadership tried to reassure the American people. “We’re certainly not going to shut down the government or default on the national debt,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Congress, he said, would not lurch from crisis to crisis.